When you claim that something is banal, you do not like it because you think it is ordinary, dull, commonplace, and boring.

If you commune with someone or something, you communicate without using words because you feel especially close or in tune with them.

Ennui is the feeling of being bored, tired, and dissatisfied with life.

An epiphany is the moment when you suddenly realize or understand something important or significant.

Something ethereal has a delicate beauty that makes it seem not part of the real world.

If you think something is fatuous you think it is stupid or extremely silly; a fatuous hope is one that is unrealistic.

A garrulous person talks a lot, especially about unimportant things.

Hackneyed words, images, ideas or sayings have been used so often that they no longer seem interesting or amusing.

If you describe ideas as jejune you are saying they are childish and uninteresting; jejune also describes those having little experience, maturity, or knowledge.

If you describe someone as loquacious you mean that he talks too much.

Something that is mundane is very ordinary and not interesting or exciting, especially because it happens very often.

Numinous objects or places seem holy, spiritual, and possess a mysterious power, which make you feel that a spirit or god may be present.

If someone is pedantic, she or he gives too much importance to unimportant details and formal rules.

If you describe something as pedestrian you think that it is ordinary and uninteresting.

A platitude is an unoriginal statement that has been used so many times that it is considered almost meaningless and pointless although it is presented as important.

A portent is a warning that indicates what is likely to happen in the future, which is usually something unpleasant.

Prattle is mindless chatter that seems like it will never stop.

Something that is prodigious is very large or impressive and great.

When someone exhibits profundity he or she displays great intellectual depth and understanding; profundity itself can also be the depth or complexity of something.

Something that is prosaic is dull, boring, and ordinary.

Something that is sacrosanct is considered to be so important, special, or holy that no one is allowed to criticize, tamper with, or change it in any way.

Something that is transcendent not only surpasses all others in quality, achievement, or significance, but exceeds normal limits or boundaries.

If you refer to something as a trifle, you mean that it is of little or no importance or value.

A trite remark or idea is so overused that it is no longer interesting or novel.

Something that is vapid is dull, boring, and/or tiresome.

Venerable people command respect because they are old and wise.

If you repeat something verbatim, you use exactly the same words that were spoken or written.

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Adj.

ineffable

in-EF-uh-buhl

Context

The ineffable, indescribable joy that Marguerite felt when she watched her son walk for the first time overwhelmed her. After the toddler stepped clumsily toward her, Marguerite swooped him up with a happy shout as ineffable, wordless pride filled her. Later, when Marguerite attempted to describe her emotions to her husband, she found that there were no words for the moment because it was so ineffably precious and rare.

Memory Hook

FineFable So beautiful and ineffable was the love that Billy held for Jill that he simply could not express it, even in the finefable that he wrote for her.

Examples

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.
— Terry Pratchett

Herein lies the ultimate paradox: if finite beings are describing this unknowable, ineffable infinite, how can these same finite beings know with certainty that what they call infinite is truly infinite?
—Newsvine

Finding Neverland deals with weighty themes such as the power of the imagination, the ineffable wonder of childhood, the loss of innocence and the nature of creativity.
—USA Today

Havana is all about pulse, an ineffable mixture of the culture, the street life, the music and the cityscape, aglow in the tropical sun.
—Newsweek